Teen Charged with Cruelty to Kangaroos
A 19-year old man has been charged with animal cruelty after killing 19 Kangaroos in Tura Beach, on the New South Wales southern coast. It is alleged the man went on a killing spree over the weekend, spotlighting the animals...
NSW Greens Move to Legislate for Life-Saving Pill Testing Services
During the last music festival season, five young Australians died in drug-related circumstances at NSW events. And while the death toll was high, the lost lives were no anomaly, and the potential for more casualties is ever present. Decades of...
A Crime of Compassion: An Interview With Green Light’s Nicholas Morley
Against the backdrop of the ACT having just passed laws to legalise cannabis use, and the pending three year anniversary of the government’s highly derided cannabis medicine licensing scheme, comes a documentary that deals with the reality of medicinal cannabis...
Free Susan Neill-Fraser: An Innocent Woman Behind Bars
A news report dated 9 October 2009 states that Susan Neill-Fraser had appeared in a Tasmanian court that day, regarding the murder of her de facto partner of 18 years Bob Chappell. At the time, she was on remand following...
Jock Palfreeman: Freedom So Close, Yet So Far
Sydney man Jock Palfreeman remains locked in an immigration detention centre in Bulgaria, awaiting a decision on whether he will be sent back to prison, or home to Australia as a free man. In the latest development in the bid...
A Vote for Diversity: An Interview With Law Society Council Candidate Angelo Bilias
Angelo Bilias is a Sydney lawyer, who understands the value of the collective strength of the law profession in this state. That’s why he places such importance in the Law Society of NSW, as the professional association representing the interests...
New Tenancy Laws Give Domestic Violence Victims a Quick Exit
NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) figures released in June, revealed that over the 12 months to March this year, domestic violence (DV)-related murders doubled to 38 people, which was up from 19 homicides that occurred in domestic...
Wodak & Shoebridge on Scipione’s Talk of Drug Law Reform
These days, it’s well understood that the war on drugs has been a monumental failure. And there’s perhaps no one better placed to understand this, than those at the frontline of enforcing the prohibitionist laws that wreak havoc in the...
Abortion Decriminalised in New South Wales
New South Wales has finally decriminalised abortion, more than a century after it was included in the state’s criminal code, and well after most of the other jurisdictions around the country have already done so. But the passing of the...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 to 29 September 2019
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Poisoning Offences in New South Wales A mother has been sentenced to at least 3 years in prison after endangering her baby’s life by poisoning...
